maintain specific hook heights at given lifting radii.
The two sections of pipe that weren’ t lifted using the rectangular CMOD spreader frame were pieces of the Cross T connector that needed to be lifted separately from the connector’ s center box to avoid undue stress on the components and joints.
But even those two straight pieces of pipe got kid-gloves treatment.
They were lifted using a 37-metric-ton capacity lifting beam and synthetic round slings in basket hitches.
“ Using the lifting beam for those pieces eliminated the need to reconfigure the CMOD for those picks,” Walsh said.“ And it still enabled using basket hitches. The pipe was too sensitive and critical to risk simply choking the short straights with a single sling.”
Color coding shows how the tridents and center box fit together. Each trident is in its own color, and the Cross T section that they connect to is blue.
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